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We greatly appreciate the response of Mehta and colleagues to our paper.
The ADAPT FAST study was an unfunded multicenter registry conducted independently by a group of committed physicians in an effort to further the understanding of stroke treatment. This was not a grant-funded prospective randomized trial. Revascularization assessments were made by the operators rather than a blinded independent core laboratory. We certainly acknowledge the limitations inherent in the design of the study. At the same time, despite these limitations, we feel that our study provides an important initial assessment …
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